Studio: Textile

Applying her extensive knowledge of natural dye processes and weaving, Maria’s work brings beautiful high-quality textiles made into functional pieces that can be admired during daily use.

With a background in creative writing, Gabbi brings into her diverse textile practice a strong introspection and sensitivity while exploring ideas of longing and the unknown.

Lea’s textile practice explores the concept of lived and inherited memory through material and technical explorations; embracing the shifting nature of memory.

With a focus on textile art, Liam MacAloney’s residency explores the relationship that craft has with human lived experiences.

Working primarily with natural dyeing, shibori, and silkscreen, Omar Zayed develops hybridized approaches to both womenswear and textile-based art.

Ella Morreale employs text and gestural drawings applied to fibre, utilizing surface design techniques such as polychromatic printing and stitching.

Tracey-Mae’s body of work addreses the opioid crisis in Canada with a focus on how we approach grief and the stigma around mental health.

A love for playfulness, patterns, collaboration and spontaneous art-making processes fuels Khadija Aziz’s creativity.

Olivia Mae Sinclair is a textile-book artist. Her intuitive and trauma-based practice is guided by sloppy craft and imperfection. She is addicted to infatuation and Redbull. She is a maker of books, love and other grotesque things. She has recently graduated from OCAD University’s Interdisciplinary Master’s in Art, Media and Design program. She earned her […]

Juliana Scherzer’s work explores the duality of the known and unknown roles of textiles in our everyday lives.